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: So that the Robbery being done in another County, it could be laid as only a Felony in Middlesex </rs>
. But the Circumstances as they appeared in Court were these, she finding her Money gone, went to the Thief takers, and for a promised Reward, got them to bring several Pick-pockets to see if any of them were those she suspected, amongst which the two former were brought, whom she presently remembred to have seen at the time; she lost her Gold, and charged them to have taken it, whereupon one of them<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="16810706002"></xptr>
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